Hello all,I have recently bought a WD external essential 3 tb drive. It's a 3.0, and i figured It was due time to upgrade my router anyways so I thought I would go with a router with a 3.0 usb drive. I have used external drives on 2.0 routers before and it wasn't plausible then, but since I have the drive already, I thought I might as well buy a router with 3.0 and give it a shot.

Nothing specific, but most of the routers I've read about just don't have the horsepower to act as a NAS, so performance suffers a lot. I'd definitely look specifically at people who have used the USB ports for information before committing.

Hmmm, As a secondary thought, what is the fastest wireless read/write speeds someone has got on an external hd attached to a router? I wasn't expecting miracles with 3.0, I just figured if I was going to buy a new router anyway, i should aim for the 3.0 slot considering I won't upgrade it again for another 2 years. Has anyone had experience with usb 3.0 on a router?

Well, you could go with this n65u model since it does have USB 3.0 ports, but as a router it's not really the best model - for example, RT-N66U has more powerful hardware, more RAM and external antennas which seem to provide better wireless coverage... But, it only has USB 2.0 ports... Asus really is unpredictable/irrational in terms of spreading various features across the different models :-/ Personally I went with RT-N66U, as I have no need to use its USB ports (I already have network printer and an external NAS with RAID1), and as a router it works better (better range) than any other model from Dlink or Netgear or Linksys/Cisco that I've tried.

My subscription allows you people to exist on this site and makes me a better human being than you'll ever be

I was really hoping there would be higher end routers with 3.0 ports. The n65u looks the best to me so far, but I am really disappointed it does not have the specs of the rt-n66u. Thanks for everyones input so far!